Firstly, if you are going to ask me to "prove it", at least muster the courage to admit that you rate Babar over Khawaja.
I agree with
@Rana when he says this is a time wasting exercise, since this comparison is not worthy of discussion but since your reading of the game has shown no progress from the days of "Faheem Ashraf is miles better than Pandya", I will oblige for the greater good of your cricketing education.
Khawaja is better than Babar for the following reasons:
1. Khawaja's defensive technique is better than Babar. Facing the new ball is undoubtedly the hardest job for a batsman in test cricket. Out of a total 144 innings, exactly half of those, 72, have come as an opener, where he averages over 50. Babar bats behind the openers but has a career test average of just over 40. It's only a matter of time when this slips below 40, assuming he does not get dropped from the side anytime soon.
2. Khawaja is a better player against the shorter deliveries because he has a greater range of shots in his Arsenal. Not only is he better than Babar in this regard, he's also an elite player of bounce. His hook, pull and cut shots are top draw.
3. Babar is so bad against spin, bettering him against the slower bowlers is no achievement that merits much praise. Khawaja had his issues early on his career against spin but unlike Babar, he worked on his issues and addressed those to become a very good player of spin bowling. In 18 tests, he averages over 60 in Asia with 5 x tons. Babar Azam averages under 50 despite being brought up on Asian wickets and had the fortune to not face India, who have always had world class spinners. Khawaja has a wide range shot scoring options against spin. Babar can't even play the sweep shot and his defences leaves much to be desired. In contrast, Khawaja has mastered the ability to go fully forward or fully back when defending against the spinners.
4. Babar and Khawaja have played a similar number of away tests but the latter is well ahead. The Australian opener has played 36 away tests and accomplished 6 tons with an average of 42, whereas Babar has played 3 fewer away tests and has just 2 hundreds away from home with an average of under 40.
5. In tests, Babar only converts around a quarter of his 50+ scores to hundreds, whereas Khawaja converts nearly 40% of his.
6. As rightly mentioned by
@mominsaigol - Khawaja schooled Babar in Pakistan on those pitches, which prompted Simon Doull to ask "Does it come from Babar who wants to bat on a road and improve his own stats?". Even commies from overseas can see who the con artist really is, so deluded fans like yourself can get to grips with the reality. To recap on those averages, since you've taken a big interest on this debate. Babar averaged 78 and Khawaja more doubled it with 165. Needles to say, he also scored more tons and runs overall during this series.
7. Babar's power game is non-existent, so much so that he has a strike rate of under 80 against the Netherlands in ODI cricket and his strike rate during the 2022 WT20 was less than run a ball. Khawaja is unfortunate that he plays for Australia, who have legendary/ATG tier batsmen throughout their white ball batting line-up, otherwise he would walk his way into this terrible Pakistan side in both ODIs and T20Is. His two ODI hundreds against an India side, featuring Bumrah, Shami, Kuldeep Yadav and Jadeja are better than any innings Babar has produced in white ball cricket.
8. Babar has only scored 2 big hundreds (150+ scores), both scored in Karachi, which is the flattest wicket of all time. Khawaja has 6 big hundreds, with 5 outside Karachi.
9. Babar has no standout innings. In addition to the 2 match winning tons vs India in ODIs, Khawaja has:
- 232 vs Sri Lanka
- 195* vs South Africa
- 180 vs India
- 174 vs New Zealand
- 171 vs England
- 145 vs South Africa
- 4 x Ashes hundreds
10. Babar is struggling to find someone to buy him in The Hundred tells everything you need to know about his white ball appeal. He has no pull. Khawaja has produced 2 x match winning hundreds against India's first string bowling attack in white ball cricket
To summarise:
- Khawaja is a better player of lateral movement
- Khawaja is far superior in attack against both pace and spin
- Khawaja has had an excellent test career, whereas Babar's test average is heading south of 40 because he looks like a finished player
- Babar has no standout innings, whereas Khawaja has a dozen
- Babar fans are delusional and have a terrible understanding of the game
You haven't stopped tagging me today, so I hope you will have the same energy when you respond this.
, 24 in SA, 49 in sri lanka, 79 in UAE
. Wait until he eventually falls to bavuma level 
is out.
